Ultra-low current beams in UMER to model space-charge effects in high-energy proton and ion machines

S. Bernal, B. Beaudoin, H. Baumgartner, S. Ehrenstein, I. Haber, T. Koeth, E. Montgomery, K. Ruisard, D. Sutter, D. Yun, R. A. Kishek

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Abstract

The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) has operated traditionally in the regime of strong space-charge dominated beam transport, but small-current beams are desirable to significantly reduce the direct (incoherent) space-charge tune shift as well as the tune depression. This regime is of interest to model space-charge effects in large proton and ion rings similar to those used in nuclear physics and spallation neutron sources, and also for nonlinear dynamics studies of lattices inspired on the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA). We review the definitions of beam vs. space-charge intensities and discuss three methods for producing very small beam currents in UMER. We aim at generating 60μA - 1.0mA, 100 ns, 10 keV beams with normalized rms emittances of the order of 0.1 - 1.0μm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Accelerator Concepts
Subtitle of host publication17th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AAC 2016
EditorsKent P. Wootton, Gregory S. Nusinovich, Steven H. Gold
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780735414808
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 6 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event17th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AAC 2016 - National Harbor, United States
Duration: Jul 31 2016Aug 5 2016

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1812
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference17th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AAC 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNational Harbor
Period07/31/1608/5/16

Funding

This work was supported by the Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
High Energy Physics

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